Scarce vintage 3.25 x 5.5-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed in blue fountain pen in the 1930s. In fine condition for its age. A leading man in German silent films until World War II, Szoke "S.Z." Sakall fled the Third Reich and found new work in the States as a character actor, playing scores of lovable, if somewhat excitable and befuddled uncles, businessmen and local eccentrics. Among his credits were supporting roles in  Ball of Fire (1941), Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Dolly Sisters (1945), and In the Good Old Summertime (1949).

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